52 – Richard Chizmar and the Truth Inside the Lie

Send us a textThis week the walls between reality and fiction begin to break down. What is truth, what is a lie? Can a story be both?These are the kinds of questions my guest, Richard Chizmar, has become an expert at answering. His new novel (if we can call it that) is Chasing the Boogeyman and it’s a unique beast. Part memoir, part true-crime, part horror fiction – it takes the streets of Rich’s boyhood home, colours them sepia and then lets a serial killer run loose. We talk about the ...